It was announced over the weekend that Daren Wang, the Co-Founder of the AJC Decatur Book Festival, will step down as Executive Director at the end of 2017 to focus on other projects. His debut novel, The Hidden Light…

Like countless pilgrims before him, Bruce Feiler experienced a revelation at the Sistine Chapel. He had his two daughters in tow, and they wanted to know why the focus was on Adam, with Eve relegated to less prominent status…

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For four years, from 2010 to 2014, Kate Sweeney, a writer and host for WABE, ran a popular reading series out of Kavarna called “True Story.” The bi-monthly reading entertained rapt listeners and helped catalyze a renaissance of Atlanta’s…

This thoroughly detailed and bracingly frank biography has entire sections devoted to Crews’ brawling and his prodigious drinking and drug use, making for a compelling read. Crews’ life story, in fact, comes across like one of his novels: gothic,…

Most people don’t associate the Georgia Institute of Technology with iambic pentameter, but, starting this summer, the engineering school will become the new headquarters for Atlanta Review, one of the country’s top-selling journals of poetry known for its international…

Pat Conroy, a writer whose lyrical, richly textured prose evoked the South against a backdrop of traumatic family dysfunction, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 70. Conroy drew from the people, landscapes and abuses of his childhood for…

Let others chart the swifter shoals of Los Angeles and New York. Long before anyone coined the expression “flyover country,” Paul Hemphill was scrounging around its margins to find poetry in the trailer park, the honky-tonk, the Minor-League locker…